WORTH A RAT'S ASS

Compelling, immersive, and versatile storyteller Laura Eaton writes across genres and the spaces in between.

The Australian military spent a billion dollars developing a secret weapon.

Then they hid me in a soldiers big toe.

My name is Neil. I am a top-secret sentient weapon. All that remarkable technology fits inside a tiny titanium seed no bigger than a grain of rice.

My mission? Keep U.S. Army tunnel rat Alejandro Ortiz alive in wartime Vietnam.

Ortiz does not even know I exist. He thinks I am a corn.

An irritating one.

The wet jungle is a miserable place to fight a war. Every rustle in the undergrowth or vibration beneath the ground could signal a hidden trap or an enemy soldier. I cannot afford to miss a thing.

To the Army, Ortiz might be expendable.

To me, he is anything but.

Worth a Rats Ass blends wartime suspense with a healthy dose of irreverent humor and more warmth than anyone might expect from a weapon.